LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilgrim
EYEMOUTH. — The James and Bachel Orindlay Life-boat was launched at 1 A.M.
on the 30th May to the assistance of the fishing-boat Pilgrim, of Eyemouth, which was in a dangerous position in the roadstead during a heavy gale...
Whitby Life-Boat In the Floods
IN the next issue of The Lifeboat will appear a full account, with photographs, of a very unusual service. This was the rescue, on 4th September, by the Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, of five people who had been trapped in...
Category: Services
Longest Winter Service
THE annual award of a case of rum to the life-boat crew which has carried out the longest winter service has been made by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited to the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, lifeboat, for a...
Category: Services
Cover Picture
When HM The Queen, accompanied by Prince Edward, visited Orkney in August, coming ashore from the HMY Britannia at Scapa Pier, the crew of Stromnesx lifeboat were presented to her by Captain Magnus Work, DSC, honorary secretary of Kirkwall... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton Co-Operative Band Was Just One of the Attractions on Clacton Pier for a Highly Successful 'Charity Nile' Last June Free Rides on the Funfair Cabaret and Two Fre
Clacton Co-operative Band was just one of the attractions on Clacton Pier for a highly successful 'Charity Nile' last June. Free rides on the funfair, cabaret and two free dolphin shows helped to make the evening a success. More than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Newly Constructed Wishing Pool In Ramsgate Model Village Raised £263 During June July and August Harry Lawford a Dla at Ramsgate Who Built the Pool Gave All the Monies Collected In
The newly constructed wishing pool in Ramsgate Model Village raised £263 during June, July and August.
Harry Lawford, a DLA at Ramsgate, who built the pool, gave all the monies collected in it to Ramsgate lifeboat. He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hundredth Birthday
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. J. C. Clarke, of Gwenfro, Greystone Park, Penmaenmawr, Caerns., who celebrated his hundredth...
Category: Committee
The Owers Lightvessel.
At 11.30 a.m. on 2/th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the Owers lightvessel. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11.44 m a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The...
Frank Bloom,
Frank Bloom, coxswain of Walton & Frinton lifeboat from 1964 to 1983. Having joined the crew in 1945 he served as bowman from 1947 to 1951 and as second coxswain from 1952 until his appointment as coxswain. He was awarded a Silver medal...
Category: Obituaries
The Moment of Truth!
The moment of truth! Eamonn Andrews waylays Coxswain Matt Lethbridge in the London Boat Show, Earls Court, to say 'This is Your Life'. (Look into the background, left, and you will also see Emergency Mechanic John 'Chick'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs